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29 Jun 2006

Author:
Clean Clothes Campaign

Poverty Wages for Women Making World Cup Footballs - New Thai study reveals workers at football factories don’t earn enough to live in dignity

A report released today by the Thai Labour Campaign (TLC) shows that workers at Molten (Thailand), a Japanese/Thai joint venture company producing the adidas Teamgeist (team spirit) football, in use during the current World Cup matches, earn as little as 173 baht per day (3.6 euros)...The TLC report...also reports on wages at the Mikasa Industries factory, where workers producing Mikasa (Japanese) footballs also earn poverty wages...New research published by the Christian Initiative Romero (CIR), a member of the CCC coalition in Germany, also found that wages at factories producing for brands including Nike, Reebok, and adidas in El Salvador and Honduras are also abysmally low.